Milo Trujillo

@backdrifting

Systems scientist, engineer, activist. Researches how we organize and govern based on our social artifacts. Postdoc at @vcsi.bsky.social, lecturer at @nunetsi.bsky.social‬, infrastructure and analysis at @ddosecrets.org

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Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· 28d

They went sicko mode

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· 28d

A “sperm data layer” by an AI company sounds extremely Boston. Missed opportunity to call it SperML, though.

A poster on a light pole titled “Cum for Science?” with an advertisement for providing a sample for fertility research that will help “Illumicell AI” create a “data layer” of sperm for some kind of AI training.

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Jul 8

Anonymous had other options than the Guy Fawkes mask

A "Winamp Balaclava", looks like that one green face Winamp skin where the audio controls are on extended panels from the ears. A caption next to the image reads "Winamp Balaclava: Knitted lime green balaclava with embroidered Winamp playback buttons across the forehead, sculpted facial contours, attached EQ and playlist panel side-pods with miniature speaker stacks"

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Jun 13

Love how you specify that he's the one that's not you

Screenshot from a Wikipedia article of a penguin next to a man playing the bagpipes. The caption reads "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Jun 9

A dear friend is graduating soon, so it's time to learn to write a satisfying capital B to address their congratulation letter

A curvy calligraphy 'B' on rough cotton paper with a deckle edge visible. The ink is blue-purple and a little messy.

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· May 30

A new era of PC. 25.0528, 121.5990

A toaster computer. There are hard drives in the bread slots and a massive wifi antenna bolted to the side. The toaster is plastered in computer stickers like “Viper Gaming.”

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· May 29

Each time I pass this collapsed lamppost it’s disassembled just a bit more, parts missing or splayed out across the grass. It feels like decay, watching nature reclaim life, first with scavengers, then with fungus. All the human ants nibbling away at the lamppost carcass to support their colonies

A street lamp on the ground, its casing cracked open, lens absent, bulb smashed, filament exposed. A red “DANGE tape ribbon is tied around the neck and hangs limply. Like entrails.

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· May 26

There are fluffballs with faces in my building's lobby today!

A baby Peregrine Falcon is held in the foreground, cradled in two hands. It looks a little flustered. A baby human is in a stroller in the background, their eyes censored to prevent baby-doxxing

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Apr 29

Here's a log scale to demonstrate! 🧑‍🔬📊📈

Heatmap of DDoSecrets releases, on a logarithmic scale that highlights that there are 153 U.S. releases and 74 Russian releases, seriously skewing the color scale.

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Apr 22

Strait of Hormuz so bad I'm getting spam email offering me Kazakh crude

Spam email reads as follows:

Dear Purchaser

We the KEZBI LLP DRILLING COMPANY has direct affiliations with the top major refineries in Russia and Kazakhstan. We have available non sanction products such as Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan origin already in the high sea for Tanker Take Over TTO, CIF FOB TTM PROCEDURE.

The products are as follows:
Diesel EN590 10ppm, JET A1, ESPO CRUDE OIL, UREA 47, GREEN PETCOKE, AVIATION KEROSENE JP54.LNG, AGO

Thanks

Director
Bitim kezbayev
KEZBI LLP DRILLING COMPANY

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Apr 20

This is taking longer than expected, but our server should be back online with substantially more storage later this week.

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Mar 15

Gimli/Legolas meme template.

"Never thought I'd publish leaks from a bibliography style guide maintainer"

"What about from the largest U.S. association of language and literature scholars suing the government over funding cuts to education programs?"

"Aye... I could do that"

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Mar 2

A screenshot of the wikipedia article for "Denial-of-service attack" which has recently added a disambiguation block reading "'DOS' and 'DDoS' redirect here. For the non-profit whistleblower site, see Distributed Denial of Secrets. For other uses see DOS (disambiguation)."

The screenshot is adorned with pink and purple hearts around the reference to Distributed Denial of Secrets.

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Feb 23

Update from the blizzard: it's cold and wet out there. Desolate and beautiful, though.

Overcast, blizzard conditions, deep snow. Photo overlooks a park, bare trees dripping with powder. The boundary between the 'trail', park, and pond is utterly indistinguishable.

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Jan 14

Yes! Yes, I agree!!

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Jan 14

Until now I’ve been highlighting details with a gold or silver paint pen, which can be very satisfying, but limits my options and can rub off

A was seal of an eye in a triangle with light beams coming off of it. The wax is red and pink, but the details are all highlighted in gold

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Jan 14

I like closing my letters with wax seals, and yesterday learned how to make a two-tone seal. Off-centered and needs more blue, but proof of concept successful ☺️

A brass colored honey bee on a larger frilled dollop of blue wax. Both are on a test page amidst various wax droplets and calligraphy tests.

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Jan 12

Yesterday I found a satisfyingly mysterious brick in front of Boston city hall

A brick, with a reverse engraving leaving a pattern of symbols that look a little like "|:+5~"

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Jan 11

One of my fountain pens broke, and I had to fully disassemble it with tiny wrenches to repair the plunger, clean everything, re-grease the mechanism, and assemble it again. It works like a charm, and I feel like I've reached a new level of nerding out over this hobby

A disassembled TWSBI Diamond 580, with the nib+feed, barrel, and plunger mechanism separated. Among the pieces are a tiny wrench, a bottle of silicon grease, q-tips for grease application, and an allen wrench I needed to push the plunger out.

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Jan 7

Their estimator, I assume

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Jan 5

A house sees a full moon, exclaims "Oh no" and then turns into a warehouse. It is a werehouse.

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Jan 2

Some great work at @ddosecrets.com! Here's the state of our coverage as of the end of 2025. If you support what we do, please donate! donorbox.org/ddosecrets

A map of the globe, with countries color-coded to indicate the number of datasets DDoSecrets have published from each country. Top countries include the U.S., Russia, Canada, and Brazil.

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Nov 30

Star Wars episode 3 scene where Obi-Wan amputates Anakin by lightsaber on Mustafar, except Anakin has a train face from Thomas the Tank Engine. Obi-Wan's subtitles have been blacked out to leave "You were the choo!" "You were my train. I loved you."

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Nov 26

Cinnamon was wearing broccoli as a hat

A bearded dragon in a pet store tank with the label “Hi, my name is Cinnamon.” The bearded dragon has broccoli on its head, like it’s wearing a hat, and they’re pressed up to the glass showing off their fashion sense

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Sep 16

This is shameful. While I doubt I'll have an impact, I've written to my alma mater (#RPI) urging them to reconsider their vaccine-autism research contract, as are many others I know.

Dear Dr. Schmidt, Board of Trustees, and Deans,

I am a proud alumnus of Rensselaer (B.S. 2018, M.S. 2020), and credit the institute with shaping
me as a professional scientist. I write today with grave concern about Rensselaer’s proposed
contract with the CDC to study links between vaccinations and autism [1].

Rensselaer’s commitment to knowledge and thoroughness is well-known. However, the link
between vaccines and autism, first proposed in a now-retracted 1998 paper [2], has been
conclusively investigated and discredited [3, 4, 5]. Scientific consensus is clear, and further
studies are not warranted. Instead of providing certainty, Dr. Juergen Hahn’s proposed work will
provide legitimacy to vaccine skeptics by suggesting that a causal link between vaccination and
autism is even conceivable.

Vaccine hesitancy is on the rise globally, in part driven by perceived risk of vaccination [6]. In
contributing to this hesitancy, Rensselaer will be complicit in decreasing vaccination rates, a
return of once-defeated diseases like measles, and ultimately, unnecessary suffering and early
deaths. I urge the institute to reconsider their CDC contract, for the good of humanity and their
own reputation.

Respectfully,
Dr. Milo Z. Trujillo

(There are references, but the bibliography does not fit in alt text)

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Sep 14

That’s ridiculous! Some of us act like kids under 12 and need those stickers for our microwaves.

A microwave, emblazoned with two round stickers on the door. The top sticker reads “I voted”, while the bottom sticker reads “I got my Covid-19 vaccine”

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Aug 24

Bumper sticker reading “horse denier” with a photo of a horse crossed out with a label “Not Real”

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Jun 9

No more machine learning, only machine yearning. We are teaching computers how to love.

IBM’s “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision” slide, except words have been blacked out to leave “a computer can never be held, therefore computer sad”

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Jun 5

Great talk by @erikweis.bsky.social on applying the stochastic block model to group detection in geographic settings

Erik at a podium in front of a slide reading “the spatial stochastic block model” with an illustration of a distance matrix

Erik at the same podium in front of a map of Atlanta with groups determined by SSBM

Milo Trujillo@backdrifting· Feb 25